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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-04-09, Page 8eel See us for sales with service. Big selection of Raleigh and C.C.M. Bicycles. YAMAHA Lf c ainnoinn TIRE RSSKIRTE STORE Announces the OPENING of their WAREHOUSE ANNEX in the former site of The Loft (located next door to the Canadian Tire Store). 444 Main St., Exeter Visit Our Annex Today For An Excellent Selection of - Bikes and Trikes - Wheelbarrows, Lawn rollers - Lawn mowers & Rototillers - Coolers & Camping Supplies - Barbecues - Tents - Water Skis, inflatable boats and marine supplies and other seasonal items Canadian Tire is your Hardware, Sporting Goods and Automotive Headquarters in Ex- eter. Open daily including Saturday Value Quality Guarantee 444 MAIN ST.; EXETER 235-0160 OPEN THURS. & FRI. UNTIL 9 P.M. Split weekend games . O f 31 Now P, Times-Advocate, April 9, 191$0 • Lead M. inal: . NO REBOUND REBOUND — Ed Willis waits for a rebound that never came in Friday's game. The point shot by defenceman Dave Shaw found the open corner and is shown just floating over the line. Staff photo Area hockey fans could see history in the making at the South Huron rec centre, tonight, when the Exeter midgets tackle Bradford in the fifth game of their OIVIHA final. If the locals win, it would give them the series by a 4-1 count and Mark the first presentation of an Ontario Championship trophy in the new rec centre. Game time is 8:00 p.m. The locals split a pair of games with. Bradford this weekend, suffering a 6.4 loss on home ice, Friday, but taking a stranglehold on the championship with a hard- fought 5-3 win in Bradford Sunday night. If a sixth game is needed, it will be played in Bradford on Friday and the seventh is scheduled for the rec centre on Sunday. A midget win would give Exeter its fifth Ontario title since 1972 when the Exeter Hawks brought home the silverware. They duplicated the feat in 1977. The local pee wees won in 1973 and the same team members brought home the bantam trophy in 1975. Only one of those four other trophies was presented on Exeter ice, that being the bantam win in the old arena in 1975. "If we play hockey we should be able to wrari it up," NOT THIS TIME — Bradford's John,Kovacs had an excellent scoring opportunity in Friday's midget game at the rec centre, but netminder Rich Fletcher was equal to the task as he came up with a spectacular leg save on the play. Moving into help are Exeter players Jamie Chaffe, Bill Renning and Rick Lindenfield. Staff photo CYCLE AND SPORTS GRAND BEND 238-2418 OUTDOORS! ROLLIE'S See Rollie's - your outdoor specialist. LET'S GET TRACK SUITS AND RUNNING SHOES FISHING SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER Rollie's has the experience and the stock to suit your fishing needs. commented coach Jack Fuller. "We just have to play three periods • of good hockey.' Too little, too late Playing at home, Friday, the locals played only one good period of hockey and their rally in the third period LINE UP, PLEASE — Three players from each team line up in front of the Bradford net in a tussle for the puck, which is just partially under the arm of netminder John Kemp. The local midgets are John Kernick, Ed Willis and Jeff Rowe. 'Staff photo 4est, ets could vv4s a ease of too little, too late. Bradford jumped into an early 5-0 lead and started the third with a commanding 5-1 margin that was just too much for the Exeter crew to overcome although they pulled to within one with just over three minutes left in the MOVE OUT — Jamie Chaffe moves a player out of the goal area for netminder Rich Fletcher, but his actions were considered a little drastic by the officials and he was banished - for two minutes. Staff photo SEE US FOR YOUR Hockey Team Jackets Seasbn Wrapping Up? 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I The cry will soon be heard and you'll find all you'll need at MacLean's to get ready for spring ' training. * Gloves * Balls * Bats * Baseball Shoes NOTE TO TEAMS - ORDER NOW WHILE WE HAVE A GOOD SELECTION OF BALL UNIFORMS Immediate Delivery They're In Stock lllllllllllll l lllll,ll11111 anvil lll lllllll II • • • do It torn ht lllllll I lllll 1111111111111111111 lllllllllll WAS left alone to handle the Bradford offence on several occasions and on most of the six tallies, he made one or two saves before he suc- cumbed to the pressure. It wasn't until the third period that Exeter started to skate and check as they had done in their first two wins. Captain Mike McGuigan, who sat out the first game of the series through a suspension, paced the visitors in their attack as he potted three goals. The Exeter scoring was handled by Dave Shaw, Mike Murray, Dave Jackson and Rick Lindenfield. Shaw also added a pair of assists and singles were recorded by Lindenfield, Jackson, Murray, Tom Coates, Dave Underwood and JOhn Ker- nick , Put it together The locals gave coach Fuller and their supporters some anxious moments when they started out in low„ gear again in Sunday's game, but they started putting their winning for- mula together in the final stages of the first period and kept it going to win by the 5-3 margin. Bradford took a 1-0 lead and held on to it until the 18.35 mark of the first when Dave Underwood scored the first of his three on a play with linemates Mike Clark and Mike Murray. Rick Lindenfield then scored with nine seconds left to give Exeter a lead they never relinquished. Lin- denfield took passes from Pete Tuckey and Jim Lovie and then skated around one defender and blasted a shot to the top corner. Underwood scored the only tally of the middle frame to give Exeter a 3-1 margin when he fired a hard slap shot from just inside the blueline on a play with Clark. Bradford whittled the lead to one goal early in the third and Underwood got that one back at the 13.37 mark on a play with Murray when he wheeled'and found the mark 'on what appeared to be an almost impossible angle at the side of the net. The home team again narrowed the margin to one with about five minutes left and almost tied the. game in Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH The Exeter rodeo is beginning to be something like a cat that has nine lives, The rodeo was pronounced dead after its 1977 per- formance. Several weeks ago it appeared to be ready to be revived but a meeting Tuesday night of rodeo association directors did not show enough interest. They met with Doug Andrews of High Country Rodeo Company but turned down a very enticing offer to revive the rodeo. That was about 10 p.m. Tuesday evening. A couple of hours later Andrews had been introduced to Bill McGrath of the Stephen Optimist club. For the next three days and nights McGrath who is past president of the Optimists and current president Bob Pinter did a lot if investigating in hopes of their club taking over sponsorship of the rodeo. Those hopes were fulfilled Saturday afternoon when a`contract was signed with Doug Andrews for the 1980 rodeo to be held on July 19 and 20. For this year the rodeo will continue to be called the Exeter rodeo. It will be sponsored by the Stephen. Optimists and held at Huron Park on the grounds own- ed by the Exeter Saddle club. It was with mixed emotion that most members of the former Exeter rodeo committee turned down the offer Tuesday night. Secretary Jack Malone said he was very disap- pointed that only 11 persons showed up. Malone had sent out 36 invitations to the meeting. He added, "This clearly shows there is very little interest." Rodeo president Dalt Finkbeiner agreed saying, "Here we are the same group of people that decided in 1977 to quit and we don't seem to have any more in- terest, maybe not as much." Most in attendance agreed that the proposal put forth by Doug Andrews was satisfactory, but, the man- power to carry out the event was not in evidence. In addition, the former rodeo directors felt they had no objective to give them the stimulus to sponsor such a large event. As one said, "What would we do with the money if we made any. We have no goals. A service club would have." At Saturday's meeting with Andrews and the Stephen Optimists a question was asked if any of the service clubs in Exeter were interested. The reply was that all had representatives on the rodeo committee and have showed no interest since the last event. Through the co-operation of Molson's and High Country Rodeo the 1980 Ontario rodeo circuit will be the largest ever. Doug Andrews is supplying the full rodeo package for 19 sites in addition to the local one. The same rodeo and its top notch performers and riders that is coming here will be providing the grands- tand shows at the Western Fair in London for two days and four days at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Dashwood ball Plans are being made for another season of slo pitch softball in the Dashwood area. Anyone wishing toparticipate in mens or ladies slo pitch should register before May 1. You may sign up at three locations in Dashwood. They are Schatz's Store, Nutt's Store and Merner's Meats. Play will start on May 21 for the men and May 22 for the ladies. More exciting hockey Hockey continues to be front and centre on the local scene with three important series still underway. In the Ontario Minor Hockey Association Midget "B" playoffs the Exeter midgets should have the provincial championship by the time some people get around to reading this week's issue of the T-A. The midgets under the direction of coach Jack Fuller, manager Keith Coates and trainer Jack Underwood are meeting Bradford tonight, Wednesday at the South Huron Rec Centre. They lead the best-of- seven series three games to one. In OMHA pee wee action, the Lucan pee wees after winning the first two games of the finals gained only a tie in two weekend games in Havelock and their margin on the point board is now five to three. The fifth game is set for the Lucan arena Saturday night of this week at 5 p.m. The teams go back to Havelock for a Sunday contest. The most exciting action on the home front is be- ing provided by the Exeter Mohawks and the Zurich Buckeyes in the South Huron intermediate hockey league championship round. These two strong teams are currently deadlocked at two games a piece. Three of the four games to date were decided by only one goal and two games were decided by overtime. The fifth game is tonight, Wednesday in Zurich with the sixth at the South Huron Rec Centre Friday night and if a fifth is necessary it goes Sunday after- noon at 2 p.m. in Zurich. An interested spectator A former resident of this area has been an interested spectator at the two Exeter midget playoff games in Bradford. He is Sylvester Wuerth, Better known as Sonny, he has been an enthusiastic baseball and hockey sup- porter. for most of his 87 years. Sonny was a member of the strong Crediton baseball teams in the early 1920's. He now lives with his daughter in Lefroy and really enjoyed renewing acquaintances with a lot of local fans. ATTENTION: the final minute when they got a breakaway but Peter Parsons came up big to make the save and keep Exeter's slim margin intact, Bradford pulled their netminder for an extra at- tacker in the dying moments, but it backfired when Mike Clark took a pass from Underwood and found the open net for the in- of 1979 & 1980 Bikes Continues Super Savings on All Models in Stock SPECIAL OP THE WEEK 1979 XS 400 F Only $1680. 00 & Freight & R.D.I. WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL! [ ELDER ENTERPRISES' SALES & SERVICE DIAL 262-6142 HENSALL - ONT. 1 mile West and 1 Mlle South of Henson YAMAHA 1".BALL PLAYERS Any team or players wishing to play in the Exeter and area men's rec fastball league are asked to contact the South Huron Recrea- tion Centre by Wednesday, April 16, 235-2833. Please leave name and phone number. marker with eight seconds left on the clock, Parsons made several key saves in the game„ the biggest being ,on the breakaway with Exeter leading 4-3 in the final minute, Exeter picked up 16 of the. 29 minor penalties called in Sunday's tilt and they had 13 of the 23 in Friday's game, 4 f • . •